Season 3 Findings
Washed Ashore. As someone who spends a lot of time on or near the sea, I am obliged to pass along the following update -before sharing the plan for ArcticEarth 2024 & 2025 (below).
Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership
Expeditions 006 to 010
ArcticEarth SOUTH- After last winter’s decision to position the boat in the outer ranges of the Gulf of Maine in 2023, we set to it in June, with the first of four purpose-driven collaborative expeditions. All four trips allowed opportunities to connect the narrative dots within the larger bio-region of the northwest Atlantic (Maine to Greenland and Canada) that we call home. In 8 months, we will return to the NORTH, exploring both the west and east coasts of Greenland.
Gulf of Maine
Our expeditions start this week with a fourteen-day trip to the high seas and some offshore support for a film and science group. We are also pleased to announce a multi-year relationship with the Ocean Genome Atlas Project, beginning this summer
2023 Season 3 SOUTH
Our 2023 expeditionary focus will be exploring the connections between NORTH and SOUTH, within our region of the northwest Atlantic. The lineup so far looks like: a science team studying plankton genomics and behavior, a group of writers examining the mysteries of the intertidal in the Bay of Fundy, a visit to the Kent Island Research Station of Bowdoin College, a group of still photographers workshopping with well-known maritime photographer Allison Langley, and filmmakers recording the life that moves from Maine to Greenland.
Ice is not the only excitement in the neighborhood. There’s also mud.
Why ArcticEarth?
In 2016, I had the opportunity to film with some friends in the northern part of the oceanic region where I live -the northwest Atlantic. We visited Sermeq Kujalleq (“southern glacier,” in Greenlandic). Throughout the 2000’s, this was one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world, a giant moving belt that dumped massive chunks …